River, commenting on Blog Preston’s story, made a more political statement: “On a day which we’ve suddenly decided to call ‘Black Friday’, and a day where alarming statistics about the impact of obesity on the NHS are racking up, this shop is a little piece of the history of the origins of the Americanisation of UK society. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the vastly wealthy multinational that owns KFC to mark this piece of history in some way – perhaps by repaying a little of the cash Prestonians have poured into their tills in return for meat swimming in saturated fats to contribute something that will be useful to the health and welfare of Preston people.”

Chris Hatton was fairly morbid about the news.

He said: “They better open another, I don’t know how I will get through each year without an allowance of KFC to hand!”

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